A rare soft body fossil that also shows the legs and grills. Also the digestive tract is preserved. All in one is this a fantastic sample for this rare fossil.
It is hard to image a better preserved Naraoia ! Naraoiids are a simple diversified group inside the Arthopoda. Although they have lot of affinity's with trilobites they are a independent, "cognate" group. This results are based on the fact that Naraoiids do not have a calcium- carbonate hardened body parts. It is also improbable that they are a progenetic group*. (*R. Fortey in Kaesler et al 1997) |